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Offline JBG

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Let's see what teh FBI comes up with.

In any case someone who cries and snivells and blabs on about how much he likes beer doesn't look to me like someone you want on the high court.
He was giving an honest picture of his life as an adolescent in high school and a near-adolescent in college. The centerpiece of the Jewish religion is the process of atonement for sins and forgiveness. See generally, on atonement, Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement - Judaism 101.

But forgiveness by the victim is a somewhat different issue. In a link on Interpersonal Relationships (link), the writer posits, I think correctly, that as a general matter a victim must forgive in order to receive absolution from his own sins:
Quote from: torah.org
The Mishna in Yoma is telling us that before one can be forgiven for a sin committed against another person, such as embarrassing the person, stealing from the person , etc., the “victim” must forgive the person who committed the act against him. Only then will Hashem forgive the person for the disregard of His commands.



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We must remember as we approach Yom Kippur that in order to acheive atonement, we must ask all those who we have harmed for forgiveness. In order to truly repent, we must make a firm comittment to “be nice” to our neighbor – to be sensative to others’ needs and situations, and act accordingly, in a way that will not necessitate a visit before the next Yom Kippur to ask for forgiveness.
The point being that long-ago transgressions, even if they actually happened (which is in doubt here) should not be a factor if the person has no recent behavior of this kind.
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